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gorbachev's reform (perestroika/glasnost)
became general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in March 1985, he launched his nation on a dramatic new course.
Gorbachev’s revolutionary program swept communist governments throughout Eastern Europe from power and brought an end to the Cold War -
berlin blockade
The Berlin Blockade was an attempt in 1948 by the soviet Union to limit the ability of France, Great Britain and the United States to travel to their sectors of Berlin. berlin blockaid was one of the first major international crises of the cold war. -
creation of nato and the warsaw pact
The Soviet Union and its affiliated Communist nations in Eastern Europe founded a rival alliance, the Warsaw Pact, in 1955.
The alignment of nearly every European nation into one of the two opposing camps -
korean war
north korea smashed into south korean.this war was the first shooting confrontation -
sputnik
the Soviet Union launched the earth’s first artificial satellite. The fact that the Soviets were successful fed fears that the U.S. military had generally fallen behind in developing new technology. -
bay of pigs
the United States attempted to invade Cuba and overthrow premier Fidel Castro.
17th of April about 1,300 exiles armed with United States weapons landed at Bahia de Cochinos Bay of Pigs on the southern coast of Cuba. -
creation of the berlin wall
On August 13, 1961, the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic GDR or East Germany began to build a barbed wire and concrete
The Berlin Wall stood until November 9, 1989, when the head of the East German Communist Party announced that citizens of the GDR could cross the border whenever they pleased. -
fall of the berlin wall
The fall of the Berlin Wall had begun with the building of the Wall in 1961.
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cuban missle crisis
Cuban Missile Crisis is that it forced to great nations and super powers to reconsider a nuclear war.
The Cuban missile crisis brought the world very close to a possible third world war and a nuclear war at the same time -
disarmament agreements 9salt, salt 2)
The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) were two rounds of bilateral conferences. corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union the Cold War superpowers -
soviet invasion of afghanistan
At the end of December 1979, the Soviet Union sent thousands of troops into Afghanistan. immediately assumed complete military and political control of Kabul and large portions of the country. -
veitnam war
The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam.The U.S. had to back out. This loss of soliders and the war caused an up roar in the U.S.
